Next, the submissions received by the Journal de Ciencias Sociales that were approved and are awaiting number assignment.

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Essay on collective memory as a social motivation for dark tourism in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine
Lucia Bigolin

Essay

Abstract: Dark tourism is a branch of tourism that is dedicated to visiting places associated with death and tragedy. Collective memory acquires meaning in specific areas, marking identities in specific environments, thus becoming an integral part of cultural heritage. Its relevance is especially manifested in the transformation of areas previously marked by catastrophes into tourist destinations. To this end, this essay aims to investigate the dark tourism that takes place in the exclusion zone, located in Ukraine. A point that managed to attract more than 100,000 tourists during 2019, exceeding five times the number of tourists who visited this point in previous years. Through this project, we will seek to understand this growth from the perspective of the collective memory and motivation of the people who choose that destination as a demand for planned tourism.At the same time, the objective is to establish how dark tourism promotes the development of collective memory and the conservation and dissemination of cultural heritage. Analyzing its tourist system, its infrastructure, structure and superstructure as well as its attractions, equipment and facilities. The expected results of this work will contribute to a comprehensive vision of dark tourism and it is expected to achieve a general understanding of the phenomenon of dark tourism and its development in the last decade from 2013 to 2023.
Keywords: dark tourism; heritage; collective memory; Chernobyl.
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Approaches to Community Urban Agroecology: Opportunities to Sow Debates and Cultivate Sustainability Agendas
Jaime del Río

Student Contribution: Postgraduate

Abstract: The industrial model of food production has led to various environmental issues, which have deepened in recent years and are currently the subject of debate. The increase in crop yields required the massive use of scarce and high-value inputs and was unable to achieve the goal of ending world hunger. This highlights that the food crisis is more related to a crisis of equity. In this context, activities aimed at discussing this production hegemony are being developed in cities, proposing, through action, an alternative for producing food sustainably by adopting the agroecology approach. These urban experiences are often organized communally in agroecological gardens that aim to establish a physical and intellectual space for interaction within the community. They aspire to cultural exchange and productive and social transformation by strengthening the participants, fostering greater autonomy in decision-making around food issues. Considering that urban centers are the main reflection of the trends of our time, these experiences have great potential to promote changes in their environment. Urban and community agroecology aims to initiate debates that set environmental sustainability agendas.
Keywords: urban agroecology; sustainability; food; environment.
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UNESCO Story Circles for developing intercultural competences in higher education students within a heterogeneous society context
Carolina Giménez Milán

Contribution to the Social Panorama section

Resumen: Story Circles were designed by Dr. Darla Deardorf (2020) together with UNESCO as a practical intercultural tool for developing and practicing intercultural competences that can be used with different groups of people in many settings around the world. Story Circles help participants develop intercultural competences such as listening for understanding, cultural curiosity, empathy and reflection about differences. They can be utilized in a variety of settings in order to improve human interactions across difference, whether within a society (differences due to age, gender, religion, socio-economic status, political affiliation, ethnicity, and so on) or across borders. Although some articles have been published on Story Circles with participants of different nationalities, in this study we use Story Circles to reflect on the differences between people within the same society and with the supposed “same culture”. In this research we used the Story Circles within students of an official Higher Education Institution dedicated to Spanish Letters. We organized three small groups of mostly Argentinean participants who completed a feedback questionnaire at the end of the experience. Seeing that Argentine society is profoundly heterogeneous in its beliefs, practices, rituals, and identifications, we tried to verify if the emotional connections that Story Circles usually produce among people involved in them are expressed in our participants’ feedback. The findings corroborate positive reviews by all participants, and the proposal of Story Circle methodology as a complementary training activity for intercultural competences was highly appreciated by all the participants.
Keywords: story circles; culture; aglobal competences; UNESCO.
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